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J-ISIS (Java ISIS)
World Meeting of CDS/ISIS
Rio de Janeiro, 14-16 September 2008
Jean-Claude Dauphin
Program Specialist, Information Society Division, Communication
and Information Sector
UNESCO
QUICK BACKGROUND
• Of all the software tools developed and
distributed free-of-charge by UNESCO,
• the most popular has been the CDS/ISIS
software for creating, updating and
searching textual databases.
How Many Users of CDS/ISIS ?
250,000, 500,000, Millions, ??? institutions
and individuals using this software
the real number of beneficiaries can be
multiplied exponentially!
50 downloads per day of CDS/ISIS
J-ISIS PROJECT MISSION AND GOALS
new multiplatform Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS) ISIS suite
same successful concepts and
functionalities as the actual UNESCO ISIS
suite
J-ISIS PROJECT MISSION AND GOALS
removing the restrictions,
Client/Server,
UNICODE,
and benefiting of the latest software
developments
J-ISIS Project Main Objectives
keep the assets and experience of the
users.
develop a long-term solution that would be
modular, easy maintainable and
extensible.
Third Party Open Source Libraries
Nobody writes software entirely in-house
anymore
Almost everyone relies upon libraries and
frameworks written by someone else.
By using them, it is possible to concentrate on
the actual logic of the application while reusing
the infrastructure frameworks, and libraries
written and provided by others.
Java programming language to be
multiplatform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X,
etc...).
Simple
Architecture neutral
Object oriented
Distributed,
Portable, Robust
High performance,
Dynamic,
Multithreaded
Secure
Open Source
Sun Netbeans platform for building modular
applications
The Netbeans Platform Container
manages the modules, they can be
updated from an update center and
developed separately.
Part of the Netbeans platform is also reused for the Graphical User Interface and
Internationalization.
Netbeans Platform
http://platform.netbeans.org/
The NetBeans Platform is a generic
framework for Swing applications.
First and foremost, it addresses the
requirement of nearly every desktop
application to have a set of basic
components, such as a menu bar, toolbar,
and windowing system.
Open Source Libraries used by the J-ISIS
Engine
The Berkeley DB that can manage variablelength records,
 Lucene for indexing and searching,
MARC4J for ISO2709 and MARC I/O,
JFlex and JCup for generating from a grammar
the print formatting language lexer and parsers,
JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC)
the JDIC project WebBrowser component
allows to use a native Web Browser based
on IE or Mozilla
Used for displaying Print Format Output,
thus allowing to use XHTML and
JavaScript
Open Source Libraries
Berkeley DB
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berk
eley-db/db/index.html
Lucene
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html
MARC4J http://marc4j.tigris.org/
JFlex http://jflex.de/
Java Cup
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/java
/CUP/
J-ISIS Database Server
Scalable NIO server that uses multiplexing
and can then accept thousands of clients.
It uses the Java New I/O (NIO) packages
introduced in J2SE 1.4.
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/cpjslides/nio.p
df Scalable IO in Java
Further Development Envisaged
Servlets that would allow to access the
Database Server by means of an application
server such as Apache Tomcat or GlassFish
A Rich Client Desktop client application that
will use http tunneling to communicate
between the client and the database server
through a middle-tier application server
servlet that will work as a proxy.
Further Development Envisaged
A Web Browser AJAX client application
based upon the Google Web Toolkit
(GWT) that provides a coherent AJAX
development environment.
Publishing J-ISIS Project as an Open
Source Project
Project will be hosted on Sun
Microsystems Java.net web site to involve
the java communities
Project will be published after releasing
the first Beta version planned for end
2008.
Sun Microsystems Partnership
J-ISIS uses mainly open source
technologies developed by Sun
Microsystems
UNESCO is negotiating a Memorandum of
Understanding between UNESCO and
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems Partnership
The mission of the Sun Microsystems
company is to enable people and
worldwide businesses to realize their full
potential through the use of innovative
information technology.
Sun Microsystems Partnership
As an international corporate citizen of
conscience, the firm is committed to Free
and Open Source Software and is thus
massively connected to the participation
age economy, the ideal development and
business model for today massively
connected, Participation Age economy.
Sun Microsystems Partnership
The open source model offers liberties to
every user and developer who act for a
genuinely collaborative innovation
SOURCE CODE
The whole source will be provided as a
NETBEANS project including the 3rd
parties open source libraries.
LICENSE
The J-ISIS project is free software,
published under the terms of the GNU
General Public License.
There is absolutely NO WARRANTY for JISIS, its code and its documentation.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
We have identified the following roles:
project managers
developers
testers
users
documentation writers
Translators
Help Wanted
Peer Review
Refactoring
Testing
Further development
Documentation writing
Translation
Skills required to work on J-ISIS project.
Java Programming, JSE, J2EE
Rich Client Programming with NETBEANS
PLATFORM
UI programming with Swing
Good knowledge of the CDS/ISIS Software suite
and Library automation
Client/Server architecture using Java New I/O
(NIO) packages introduced in J2SE 1.4.
Skills required to work on J-ISIS project
• Berkeley DB Java Edition
• Lucene for indexing and searching
• Bibliographic Formats such as Marc21,
ISO2709, etc
• JFlex and JCup
• Development of Servlets to access the
Database Server
• Development of Web Browser AJAX client
application based upon the Google Web Toolkit
(GWT)
CONTACT PERSON
 Jean-Claude DAUPHIN
 Project Manager, Software Development
 Information Society Division
 Communication and Information Sector
 UNESCO
 1, rue Miollis
 75732 Paris, cedex 15
 France
 Tel: +33/(0)1 45 68 37 89
 E_mail: [email protected]
 [email protected]